!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 383.
"Designed of Ose, who married a daughter of ____ ____, by whom he
had two sons and two daughters."
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS --
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod
Society, 1968, pp. 103, 109-110.
Succeeded his uncle, Norman, at Hamer.
William was the eldest son of Roderick MacLeod, tacksman of Lynedale
and of Skeabost (immediate younger brother of Norman MacLeod), and
was a Lieutenant in the army. On his uncle''s death, he left the army and
returned to Skye to succeed him at Hamer. [COMMISSARIAT RECORD OF
THE ISLES, Vol. 6, pp. 183-8.] He married Flora, second daughter of John
MacLeod, of the MacLeods of Gesto, with issue. Colonel John MacLeod of
Talisker, in a letter from Aberdeen, on 26th February 1786, to MacLeod
of MacLeod, writes: ''Your old pupil William Lindale (Lyndale), now Hamer,
is married to poor John Gesto''s second daughter Florie, for which I am
afraid she has not obtained her mother''s blessing, as I am afraid neither
William''s head (n)or heart are much worth''. [HAMER FAMILY PAPERS,
Muniment Room, Dunvegan Castle.] By Flora MacLeod of Gesto, Lieutenant
William MacLeod of Hamer had issue.
William MacLeod, 6th of the MacLeods of Hamer, died in 1817, and was
succeeded in the representation of the family of Hamer by his second
son.